Nākappaṭṭiṉam, bronze label
Editor: Emmanuel Francis.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00346.
Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
Version: (2652798), last modified (eecdbd5).
Translation by Ramachandran 1954
(1) The Nāyakar (i.e., Lord), the great God, the Enlightened (Buddha).
Translation by Emmanuel Francis
(1) The Lord (nāyakar), the Lord (peruṃāḷ), the Enlightened One (puṭṭi+uṭaiya+āṉ).
Bibliography
Edited in Ramachandran 1954, with a facsimile.
Edited and translated here by Emmanuel Francis (2024), based on Ramachandran 1954 and the facsimile therein.
Primary
[R1] Ramachandran, T. N. 1954. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Madras: Government of Madras. Page TBC, plate TBC.
[R2] Ramachandran, T. N. 2005. The Nāgapaṭṭiṇam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum. Revised edition. Chennai: Government of Tamilnadu. Page 57, plates V, no. 46.
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The Nāyakar (i.e., Lord), the great God, the Enlightened (Buddha).
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Commentary
Ramachandran 1954 comments thus: “The record refers to the Enlightened Buddha, who is the Lord (Nāyaka) and the Great God (Perumāḷ).”